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Monday, March 7, 2011

These Birds Are Making Me Angry

I have some problems.

One of them is that it's possible I tend to get a tiny bit into the computer games that I play. And when I say a tiny bit, I mean that I get addicted to these games like Charlie is addicted to his morning tiger blood.

Now, I'm not a computer nerd. But to be fair, that's mostly due to my own limitations. I mean, I just got an iPhone and in trying to register to play Words With Friends, I ended up with the user name Yyvvhx because I didn't understand that while I was just pressing a bunch of buttons trying to figure out what was going on, I was actually entering a user name.

I saw a game pop up and it said "Yyvvhx" was one of the people playing, and I was trying to figure out what kind of idiot uses that for a user name. Then I realized that the other player was "SheriP", which meant Yyvvhx was me. I've had a series of low moments like that involving computers, so believe me when I say I can't be a computer nerd.

Although, at least I'm not my sister. She recently got duped by her auto correct and texted "Can you go to anus?" When she meant to type 'Amy'. Hee hee!

Many times I can play a game like a normal person. You know, for enjoyment. But every now and then I will find a game that leaves me so consumed that I'm surprised I don't actually lick my computer screen when its name pops up.

I guess this shouldn't be a surprise because sometimes when I play regular games, I get a little weird. In college when playing Uno I was the happiest person in the world when I found people who would cheat play with me. I'd dress for the occasion and everything. We'd stick cards into the hood of our sweatshirts, slip them up our sleeves, push them down a sock. And it was acceptable to the other person, as long as you were sneaky enough not to be caught. We'd start a game out with 7 cards and in 2 turns be totally out of cards. That lasted until I realized people other than those particular friends became VERY incensed when I played Uno this way with them. My husband will still bring it up pretty much every time play a game. They felt it was a display of my integrity or something.

The first computer game that nearly ruined my life was The Sims. It started out innocently and then escalated into a situation that nearly ended my engagement. Things soon got to the point with this game where I actually started seeing The Sims world in my own. If I cleaned up a room or turned on a light, I pictured my energy being better like my Sim's family.

Things became progressively worse until one day I nearly lost it all.

My then fiance came over to visit me one evening after work. I was sitting at the computer playing Sims (duh). I don't remember anything other than Sims, but he tells me the evening went like this:

Honey, I'm here now. Can you stop playing that for awhile?

What? I'm just going to play for a second. I've only been playing for a minute or two.

No, you've been home for three hours and when I called you then you were playing.

Oh, really? Weird.

Honey. Please stop. (Here he started getting angry. It would have been good if I had caught that social cue.)

Honey?

OK, why don't I just leave then so that you can sit here and play that stupid game all night?

What? OK then, if you want to go. Bye.

Slam.

I don't remember what ended that obsession for me, but I remember going through the shakes and delirium that come with an addict's withdrawal when I stopped playing. I'm pretty sure at one point I felt the sensation of bugs crawling on me.

Life went on smoothly until Snood. Snood seeped into my veins and became the only part of me that mattered. I remember vividly one time I came home from work for lunch. I didn't eat, just wanted a Snood fix. I sat down to play, and when I blinked for the first time I realized I was supposed to have returned to work a half hour prior. Not my finest adult moment.

Blessedly my Snood period ended quickly and tragically, when it turned out that it was a virus that ate my entire computer. It seriously resulted in needing an entirely new computer brain.

37 comments:

It's a good thing that in about 4 days I'm going to be equally obsessed with my new iPad! At least one of us has to retain a high enough level of awareness so that if the girls try to walk out, we stop them - or at least tell them to wear their coats!

Thanks for sharing my anus auto correct, tool. I was totally obsessed with snood back in the day and it, too, caused a virus on my computer! Good luck with angry birds. I have other games you'll love....

I remember the Simms and Snood stages! Good luck to G.R., I know so many people hooked on Angry Birds. I've been burned before with spell check too Julia. Stupid technology. Great blog! I want my husband to read it. He could totally relate.

MS- Don't go back! Although I've found that when returning to something after I've been addicted to it and then taken a pause, it doesn't have as much power over me.

Megs: I figured Joe could relate. Last night it made me forget to watch The Bachelor. Guessing he can't relate to that part.

Tracie: I would advise against it. Being sucked into the apple world of apps is surely going to be a negative for me.

KLZ: Ok, I'm going to not even look at Cut the Rope! I'm loving WWF though, and that let's me go at a more normal pace because I waiting on someone else. I've been meaning to look into instagram and play around with pics a little.

They have a website where you can submit crazy things people send to you because the keyboards on their phones went crazy. It's pretty funny, but I forget what the website is called. I hate it when that happens to me, and my phone does it all the time because it's the stupid first generation droid eris by HTC. That phone absolutely blows.

Oh yes at one time I played Duke Nuk'em for over 24 hours and very short period of time when dating my former beau I played WoW. Now I just occasionally play bejeweled but I am just addicted to my droid or the inter-webs in general.

OMG We are like game soul sisters or something! lol I, too, have been addicted to SIMS back in the day. I would sometimes stay up until like 4 AM because I could not stop playing. I was literally just talking to my roommate about my obsession with angry birds. The competitive side of me doesn't come out often, but oh those birds make me angry!!! LOL Stopping by from the comment hour :D

I have finished all the angry birds levels, and then...finished all the seasons...AND THEN...went back to play again, and redeem all my scores that were only 1 star...making them 3 stars. AND THEN St. Patty's Day Seasons came out. AND NOW...I'm playing the original AGAIN to get all my 2 star levels to 3 stars! I understand all too well. And I blame YOU now for my old SNOOD obsession...I had even written a poem about it back in the day...